352x480, Is anyone using it?

[Faceman101]

I ordered a DVD burner last week and expect it soon. While I will be using it for other projects, I'd like to put alot of Divx movies I have onto DVD. Resizing to 720x480 wouldn't give me the best results and making SVCDs out of them is always a possiblity. I was thinking of using CVD, but closing all GOPs and checking DVD compliant and throw 2-3 movies onto a DVD-R (no disc swapping with SVCD and quality would be the same as SVCD anyway). I was just wondering if others have gone this route with other sources and what was your experience with 1/2 D1 encoding and authoring.

[SatStorm]

There is no reason to close any gops, that was a "tip" some users discovered, after a misstyping I made at VCDhelp's CVD presentation....
Just use "IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB" for PAL or "IBBPBBPBBPBBPBBPBB" for NTSC
With this gop stucture (15 PAL, 18 NTSC), you don't have any compatibility problems

[brett]

I'd also eventually like to use 352x480 to make some DVD-R's from non-DVD sources... so any tips from other people's experiences would be nice before I get into it :)

[Faceman101]

I've just started on encoding some and will post some comments later. Hopefully more people do too.

[oddyseus]

I was using 1/2D1 when I was on my miniDVD days. It gives a nice crisp picture even at lower bitrates of 1600kbs. I was having my miniDVDs at 3 or 4 cds per film and it was a pain switching every 30 mins or so. It remainded me of the Laserdisk era where there were 50 mins max per side.

My susggestion is go for it. It is a lot better than 1/4 D1 at 352x240.